Cisco Cisco Prime Access Registrar Jumpstart 6.0 Leaflet
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Cisco Access Registrar Jumpstart
Q. What is Cisco
®
Access Registrar Jumpstart?
A. Cisco Access Registrar Jumpstart is a hardware appliance for RADIUS/Diameter authentication, authorization,
and accounting (AAA) services. The appliance combines the speed, scalability, and reliability of Cisco Access
Registrar and its robust, world-class AAA offering with the ease-of-deployment of an appliance format and the
high performance of Cisco server hardware. The first release of Cisco Access Registrar Jumpstart includes the
following:
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Cisco Access Registrar 5.1, CentOS 5.4, and VMware ESXi 4.1 - all preinstalled on the server
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Cisco Unified Computing System
™
(Cisco UCS
™
) C200 M2 (one rack-unit [RU] rack-mount server) with an
Intel Xeon x5670 2.66 GHz 6 core processor, 24 GB RAM, two 300 GB 15K disk drives (RAID 1, yielding
300 GB total space), and dual power supplies
Q. What are the benefits of Cisco Access Registrar Jumpstart?
A. Cisco Access Registrar Jumpstart is designed to help network operators address the challenges to meet the
specific authentication, authorization, and accounting needs of service providers, including deployment,
performance, scalability, resilience, extensibility, and the reduction of operating expenses (OpEx). The solution
is fast and easy to implement with low startup costs. AAA services can be immediately turned on, configured,
and integrated into the network service for fast time to value. The Cisco UCS C200 M2 server provides
superior scale and performance in a compact form factor, and the application is preinstalled as a virtual
machine (VM), providing support for virtualized data centers. Finally, Cisco Access Registrar Jumpstart is an
integrated solution from one vendor, on one box - all supported by Cisco.
Q. How many transactions per second (TPS) are included with Cisco Access Registrar Jumpstart?
A. Cisco Access Registrar Jumpstart includes a base license of 100 TPS.
Q. Can additional TPS be added to the 100 count base license that is shipped with Cisco Access Registrar
Jumpstart?
A. Yes. Additional TPS licenses to support more than 20,000 total TPS with this single Cisco UCS server can be
purchased.
Information concerning licensing for additional TPS can be found in the Cisco Access Registrar data sheet at
Q. What operating system runs on the Cisco UCS server?
A. Cisco Access Registrar Jumpstart ships preinstalled with and supports the CentOS Linux operating system
version 5.4.
Q. Is Oracle preinstalled on Cisco Access Registrar Jumpstart and can Oracle be installed on the same Cisco
Access Registrar Jumpstart server?
A. No, Oracle is not preinstalled on Cisco Access Registrar Jumpstart. Customers need to install Oracle on a
separate server; it is not recommended to have any third-party application running on the Cisco Access
Registrar Jumpstart appliance.